Priorities
INTUG’s current priorities can be summarized as follows:
Open Access to Global Broadband
- Ubiquitous open access to high speed business class broadband infrastructure and services providing fiber-to-the-business (FttB)
- Mobile broadband as supplement in high cost areas, not as substitute
Transnational Seamlessness
- Access to equivalent wholesale inputs to enable the provision of end-to-end Quality of Service across national boundaries
- Encouragement of service-based as well as infrastructure-based competition
Next Generation Access (NGA) and Networks (NGN)
- Technology and topology which facilitates efficient and effective competition
- Options for dark fiber access, unbundling, Ethernet and Bitstream
- Collaboration by national regulators for consistent regulatory best practice
- Collaboration by national incumbents to minimize migration/testing costs
Wireless and Mobile
- Dramatic reductions in roaming charges nationally and internationally
- Dramatic reductions in mobile termination rates
- No restrictions on use of VoIP
- Effective provision for licensing of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs)
Fixed
- No restrictions on use of VoIP
- Dramatic reductions in fixed termination rates and inter operator tariffs
- Maintenance of existing analogue leased line services while essential
- Continued reduction in cross border penalties for international leased lines
